Your Conductor:
Rebecca Lodge Birkebæk
Rebecca is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied singing and piano. During her time at the RAM, she received many prizes, including the Lloyds Bank Scholarship for postgraduate study, which enabled her to complete her studies on the Opera Course.
Her career over the last 25 years has seen her perform in many different venues and styles, from the recital platform to the operatic stage, and she has also appeared as a soloist several times for the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
As a former member of the BBC Singers, the United Kingdom’s only full-time, professional chamber choir, she broadcast extensively on BBC Radio 3 and BBC television, and was most recently a staff member of the Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Rebecca has a great passion for music education, encouraging and inspiring people of all ages and abilities to improve their singing through choral workshops, leading sessions for the BBC Performing Groups, the Kings’ Singers, and Berkshire Maestros amongst many others. She has led several community choirs, and is the conductor of the Intermediate Choir at Finchley Children’s Music Group, London’s leading children’s choir.
Rebecca brings all her joy and enthusiasm for singing to our SOS choirs in Ashford and Folkestone in Kent.
